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...That was a wonderful, somewhat Klee-inspired cover by Saul Steinberg...
...gained an international reputation for his vividly imaginative drawings. He is best known, perhaps, for his regular contributions to The New Yorker, has also been published in LIFE, FORTUNE, SPORTS ILLUSTRATED and Harper's Bazaar. In his deceptively simple linear technique, he gives life to Paul Klee's definition of drawing as the art of taking a line for a walk...
...been its founder, the late Solomon R. Guggenheim. Back in 1928 he had seen his first nonobjective painting and declared, "By Jove, this is beautiful!" Under the guidance of his good friend, Nonobjective Painter Hilla Rebay, he built a lasting collection around paintings by Braque, Picasso, Léger, Klee, Delaunay and Kandinsky. But to represent pre-1900 painting, there were barely half a dozen oils. The Thannhauser gift now adds 21 works predating the 20th century, including six Van Goghs, one Degas, and three more Cézannes. Among newcomers to the museum are Daumier, Manet and Pissarro...
...collection of modern prints since his appointment as a Fogg curator in 1939. All of the works in the show? two-thirds of which were acquired over the years by Rosenberg? have increased tenfold in value. A Kirchner woodcut bought in 1945 for $90 is now worth $2,000. Klee's 1923 lithograph, Tight rope Walker, cost him $40, and now would command 15 times the price...
...DIARIES OF PAUL KLEE, edited by Felix Klee. Like his contemporaries Freud and Jung. Artist Klee sought out the hieroglyphs of the heart, and embodied them in squiggly, childlike paintings. His diaries follow a parallel course, for he lived a life of impromptu ebullience and left to the world an unself-conscious record of youthful escapades and cheerful self-indulgence...